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Gratitude as Covid-Winter-Blues-Buster

Posted on 1 November, 2020 by dilovelyadmin

It’s late already and I need to go to bed, but I thought I would just write a little something about gratitude. Every November I consider the few times I’ve done NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month, posting every day for 30 days) and think to myself, Could I do that again? And I answer myself…

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Pandemic + Nova Scotia Shooter = nobody’s okay.

Posted on 23 April, 202026 April, 2020 by dilovelyadmin

It’s Day 41 of pandemic distancing. I began an innocent little check-in post about two weeks ago. I wanted to ask how you are, and to write about what life is like during these “trying times” for posterity. It was difficult, though, because how one is doing keeps changing. The post has morphed several times…

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8 Unromantic-Sounding Ways I Know Our Marriage Will Last

Posted on 15 February, 201525 September, 2018 by dilovelyadmin

“How’s your relationship these days?” is not a question most of us ever ask people. I’ve probably only ever asked it of newlyweds (where it’s more like “How’s married life?” nudge-nudge) or of very close friends with whom I have a precedent of relationship discussions. It is a bit odd, though. Among parents, there are the constant…

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Rest in peace, Robin.

Posted on 12 August, 2014 by dilovelyadmin

What a shock, to learn that you’re gone from us. We are sad about it – devastated, bereft – all over the planet. We have not yet had time to process how much the world is depleted by your absence; we only know that when we found out, we could hardly believe it. Our jaws…

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Remembering What We’re Built To Do

Posted on 5 August, 2014 by dilovelyadmin

When I was 18, a boy at Camp wrote a poem for me. Although I didn’t requite his crush, I still consider his poem one of the most romantic things I’ve ever received, because of its candour. The second line was “She’s just like sunshine through the trees,” and to this day I still feel…

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Ladders from Dark Places

Posted on 15 October, 2013 by dilovelyadmin

This past Thursday, October 10th, was World Mental Health Day. Please, let’s talk. Mental health, or lack thereof, is a subject very close to my heart. Several people who share my blood have struggled with depression and similar mental illnesses. So has my husband. In fact, my Hubbibi was suffering from depression when we first…

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